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| Acting Inspector General of Police, Idris Ibrahim |
A female early morning
preacher was yesterday found dead in Bolar – pipeline area of Kubwa in Abuja. The woman is believed to
be a wife of a pastor in the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG).
News
Agency of Nigeria report continues:
Residents
of the area claimed that they heard her preach as usual around 5:00am but found
her lifeless body around 6am.
A
male resident, who sought anonymity said, he heard her voice early in the
morning.
He
said: “I heard her voice as usual in the morning around 5:00am preaching and at a
point, her voice faded.
“By
the time I woke up to start my morning chores, I started hearing people say
that a dead body has been found in my area.
“On
getting there, I discovered that it was the body of the woman preacher. She is
such a nice and jovial person, she doesn’t deserve to die at all and if at all,
not in that manner.”
On
how the woman was found, he said: “She was practically slaughtered. Her legs
were injured and she was lying in the pool of her own blood before policemen
came to evacuate her body.
Another
resident simply known as Idris said: “I heard her preaching today like every
normal day.
“Later
on, I heard someone screaming but because of the security situation in the
country, I decided not to come out.
“By
the time I came out, I saw people gathered discussing the death of the woman. I
believe if most people had come out when she screamed, she would have been
saved.
Another
resident, Uju lamented the security situation in the area despite paying for
security levies.
She
said: “To think that we pay for security and this place is not protected is
saddening.
“What
is the work of the security men? Most times when you are coming home late, you
will find them sleeping and in some cases, you don’t even see them at all.
“I
think something has to be done urgently to beef up the security in this area
because no one deserves to be killed.
When
a call was placed to the security outfit in charge of the area, Sam & Co to
get the details, its head Mr. Sam, said: “I saw a deep cut on one side of her
stomach and her leg.
“She
was not stabbed. I feel if she was stabbed, we would have met her gasping for
breath. But when we got to her place because we heard someone shouting blood of
Jesus repeatedly, she was already gone.
“The
community has two points of entry and we were asked to close one of the entries
because a meeting was to be held in the morning. So, we were there doing that
around 5am when Muslims were going for prayers and the Christians who went for
vigil were returning.
“This
is a woman who preaches every morning. She always admonishes people to repent
and that the kingdom of God is at hand.
“We
heard someone shouting the blood of Jesus and we noticed that the rate at which
the person was calling the blood of Jesus was too much. But before we got
there, she was in the pool of her blood.”
He
said her corpse was taken to phase four police station for further
investigations.
The
FCT command’s Spokesman, ASP Anjuguri Manzah told News Agency of Nigeria (NAN)
some suspects have been arrested over the incident.
“We
have made some arrests and they are helping in our investigation.
“The
commissioner of police has ordered the homicide section of the command to take
over the investigation of the case,” he said.
The
spokesman, however, did not mention the number of suspects arrested.
He
said that personnel of the command had visited the scene of the incident and
investigation had started.
Contacted,
the Federal Capital Territory Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Anjuguri Manzah
initially said he was not aware of the incident.
Hours
later when our reporter called back, Manzah said: “I have not confirmed because
they changed the DPO and I don’t have the new DPO’s number.”
He
however pleaded for more time to get details.
All efforts to reach him
for updates as at the time of filing this report proved abortive.
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